{"id":10327,"date":"2011-10-31T11:54:38","date_gmt":"2011-10-31T16:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=10327"},"modified":"2020-02-24T09:22:12","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T15:22:12","slug":"i-question-the-timing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2011\/10\/31\/i-question-the-timing\/","title":{"rendered":"I Question The Timing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So as I&#8217;m driving into town, I notice today that the price of automobile fuel is slowly creeping downward, as it has for a couple of weeks now.  A gallon of unleaded (a strange appellation since you can&#8217;t buy &#8220;regular&#8221; gas with lead in it any more, and now the &#8220;irregular&#8221; gas is loaded with extra corn&#8211;remember the good old days of gasohol, where the regular gas had lead, the irregular gas had no lead, and the really zany gas had booze in it?  Help, I&#8217;m trapped in a parenthetical digression and am in danger of losing my thought&#8211;where was I?  Oh, yes, outside the parentheses) gas is going for $3.09 on Battlefield and Fort (if ever there was an intersection that goes together, it&#8217;s <em>battlefield<\/em> and <em>fort<\/em>&#8211;oh no, here I go again&#8230;stop it!).<\/p>\n<p>Doesn&#8217;t anyone else see the falling price of gas as a little &lt;conspiracy&gt;<em>conveinent<\/em>&lt;\/conspiracy&gt;?  In the year before an election year, in a slumping economy, just when it can help prepare to re-elect\/elect the President and to allow the Big Oil companies to move the most product they can to maximize profits, the <em>invisible hand<\/em> of the marketplace &#8220;conveniently&#8221; changes the price? <\/p>\n<p>Crikey, I was going to go on a satirical tear about capitalism-as-conspiracy, but a couple paragraphs into it, I recognized how much my attempts at satire read an awful lot like current protest signs, albeit with better spelling.  Never mind then (maybe I should have just gone on with the parenthetical digressions; they seemed to work).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as I&#8217;m driving into town, I notice today that the price of automobile fuel is slowly creeping downward, as it has for a couple of weeks now. A gallon of unleaded (a strange appellation since you can&#8217;t buy &#8220;regular&#8221; gas with lead in it any more, and now the &#8220;irregular&#8221; gas is loaded with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10327"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25724,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10327\/revisions\/25724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}